Virginia Tech Digital Library and Archives


Faculty Archives


Welcome to a place where faculty works can be preserved in digital form. For information about using the "Faculty Archives," please contact Gail McMillan at gailmac@vt.edu or call (540) 231-9252.


Faculty Archives Examples
Both Slavery in the American Mountain South
and Oral History of Principalship started
as projects by VT faculty and are hosted by DLA.

Raymond Dessy, Emeritus Professor

Exile From Olynthus
Research documenting the year (1927-1928) that Wilhelmina van Ingen Elarth, spent abroad at the American School for Classical Studies (ASCSA) in Athens. There she participated in the first year's excavations at the archeological site of the city of Olynthus. Elarth, graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, studied in Art and Architecture. Ms. Elarth's collection is available Special Collections, Ms69-004

Mapping the Blues Genes, Early Blues Music: 1900-1930
This essay examines the mutations of the "genes" which led to the expression of the early blues. Imbedded in the text are numberous examples of lyrics and cover-art from 1904-1928.

William E. Dugger, Jr

Technology for all Americans
Developed by the International Technology Education Association's Technology for all Americans Project, Rational and Structure This is an archived website. The old TAA site is still available.

Wilma A. Dunaway

Slavery in the American Mountain South: Evidence, Sources, and Methods
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation Companion website for two books about slavery that flourished amidst a nonslaveholding majority and a large surplus of poor white landless laborers in Southern Appalachia.

Southern Laboring Women: The Gendered Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Antebellum Appalachia, 1700-1860
Companion website for her book Southern Laboring Women: The Gendered Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Antebellum Appalachia, 1700-1860. Dunaway investigates the scope and socioeconomic impacts of antebellum women's work for the multiethnic majority of females who resided in the Appalachian South.

Patrick Carlton

Principalship Project
A collection of interviews of school principals from around Virginia. Transcripts and audio samples are provided. These pages were developed by Patrick Carlton in conjunction with the New Media Center at Virginia Tech. Ms89-040

Ann Hertzler, Emeritus Professor

I've Been Working in the Kitchen
This digital presentation was adapted from the slides and script created in the late 1980's for the Virginia Cooperative Extension. It was to be used to spark interest in teaching preschool children basic kitchen skills. The 90+ images portray preschoolers "learning by doing" by building on their basic skill set. This is part of the Hertzler collection MS2001-004.
âI've Been Working in the Kitchen PDF (5.4 MB)
I've Been Working in the Kitchen Powerpoint Show (6.8 MB)
I've Been Working in the Kitchen Script (12.6 K)

The Food Curriculum
Co-authored by Marilyn Blossom, this digital presentation was adapted from the slides and script created for the Missouri Cooperative Extension. It was intended to show how to teach preschool children basic kitchen skills. The 130+ images portray preschoolers "learning by doing" by introducing where foods come from, food preparation skills ,and different food nutritional values. This presentation also illustrates how children also learn to use math , social, classification, and motor skills during the process of preparing food. This is part of the Hertzler collection MS2001-004.
The Food Curriculum PDF ( MB)
The Food Curriculum Powerpoint Show ( MB)
The Food Curriculum Script ( K)

Nutrition Central
This archived site is aimed towards K-6 teachers and students. Nutrition Central offers information on all the food groups, pages just for teachers, just for students and food related books. Ann developed this site while she was faculty for Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise at Virginia Tech.

Dr. Humberto L. Rodriguez-C. & Abbye A. Gorin

A Visual Text: History of Architecture Catalogue for Hypertext
Developed by both Dr. Rodriguez-C and Abbye A. Gorin. This site was developed for teaching art history to Virginia Tech's Architecture students. The originial text and images are from laser disk and then reformatted as this web site. This site is available to the VT campus only.


Electronic Greenbook

Electronic Greenbook (formerly FDA Approved Animal Drug Data Base) published with the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine

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